The pill is both a highly effective form of pregnancy prevention and a medication used to treat a number of other health conditions, including endometriosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
“I've always thought that these drugs should be called hormonal preparations or hormonal drugs rather than birth control or oral contraceptives because they're used so widely for all kinds of … problems,”.
Not only is it largely safe, the pill will not fundamentally change the shape of your body, it’s typical for patients to gain an average of five to eight pounds of “water weight” while on the pill, but it’s not cause for concern
“There’s no evidence to show that it changes body form or proportion,” teens who start the pill shortly after they get their first period can usually attribute any changes in how their clothes fit to puberty, not the pill.
As for claims that birth control can change a person’s personality — perhaps so significantly that they get dumped — it’s important to keep in mind that “a mood change is very different than a personality change.”
Even though the pill is safe to take, patients can have different experiences and preferences. That’s why it is easy to believe misinformation about the birth control pill.
“Things are presented in a very black-and-white manner, and these are really personal decisions and they do affect people in different ways,”
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